Sustainability

We aim to be a reliable and responsible partner for your material handling operations. That’s why we offer transparency so you can rest assured we optimise your operation. Since 1 in 10 major injuries in European manufacturing happen with material handling equipment, and 80% of the accidents are caused by unsafe behaviour, we want to help you create a safe working environment. In 4 steps, from leadership to teaching safe behaviour, we aim to achieve zero accidents.

Promoting the campaign to customers, suppliers, employees and other stakeholders

2. Safe equipment

2. Providing safe equipment

"We equip all our counterbalanced trucks with the System for Active Stability (SAS – a technology unique to Toyota) to reduce the risk of tipping over. And in case something should go wrong, we do a full root cause analysis of the accident. This is just one example of how we design safety into our trucks and in our processes.”

3. Safe operations

3. Helping you design safer material handling processes

We support you in operating your trucks safely thanks to our fleet management system I_Site and also our automated driverless Autopilot trucks. Our logistic solutions can help you to operate your trucks safely and achieve productivity gains up to 70-80%.

Maximising safety of our employees

1. Governance in our own operation

"At Toyota, we aim to go beyond legal compliance, and achieve zero accidents, by implementing TICO's Safety Vision. In Italy, we reduced injury rates by 74% since 2007. Achieving OHSAS 18001 in 2014 was a milestone in creating a more active focus on safety by both employees and management"

2. Training of our employees

All our factories have a dedicated area for the Safety Dojo. There our employees are trained on risk assessment and safe material handling. And we’re expanding these trainings to all our local sales companies.

3. Taking countermeasures

"In our Ancenis factory, we reduced injury rates by 89% since FY13 by conducting frequent risk assessments followed up directly with the right countermeasures."

2. Avoid energy waste

2. Avoid energy waste

We helped our Finnish customer Woikoski by providing tips based on TPS principles. This made their operations more energy-efficient. And in terms of products, you can use high-frequency chargers to improve the energy efficiency of your battery charging up to 15%.

3. Energy efficiency

3. Innovate – energy efficiency

New IC engines are up to 49% more energy-efficient, making them stage III B-compliant (Toyota Tonero LPG) and Lithium-Ion batteries reduce energy consumption by up to 30%, and have a lifecycle that is 3 times longer.

4. Low-carbon solutions

4. Innovate – low-carbon solutions

“As a hydrogen pioneer, we choose suppliers who can develop tomorrow’s energy solutions together with us. This is why we were first in Europe to buy a Toyota truck with fuel cell technology.”

Kalevi Korjala, CEOWoikoski Oy, Finland.

Overnight deliveries outside normal business hours reduce costs, cut fuel consumption and reduce travel time by up to 50%. The BT Silent Lifter has 20% less operating sound than a standard hand pallet truck.

Energy-efficient workplace in our operations

1. Smarter factories

“With the implementation of ISO 50001 in our factory in Ferrara, Italy has reduced energy consumption by 9%. We needed to bring many people on board as we worked to obtain the ISO 50001 energy management system certification and this team effort continues to pay off."​​​​​​​

3. Smart service fleet

With over 3,000 service vans our service fleets use more energy than all our factories put together. In Toyota Material Handling UK, we installed GPS tracking on service vans. By being able to send the nearest technician available to customers every time, we reduced fuel consumption by 12%.

4. Responsible purchasing

4. Responsible purchasing

Over 80% of our annual sourcing volume comes from suppliers in Europe. Many are located close to our manufacturing plants, sustaining the local economy and reducing the impacts of transport.

We work closely with all our suppliers to make sure they adhere to our quality, social and environmental criteria. All our significant suppliers of truck parts are certified to the ISO 14001 standard. With some suppliers, such as ZF, we take this collaboration to another level, by sending in our experts to support them in implementing lean processes based on the Toyota Production System.